Dream Collection: My Movie Memories

Author: Xie Qizhang
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Publish Date: 2005-04-01
Features: Chinese cinema has now been around for a full century. Stars like Zhou Xuan and Hu Die seem more like legends than real people. The position film once held in people's lives is unimaginable in contemporary society. The author, Xie Qizhang, is a collector, and only someone like him could preserve such a vast collection of photographs and materials, taking us back to the golden age of Chinese cinema. The book narrates the rise and fall of the lives of these stars and the many anecdotes of the past film industry, serving as a century-long reflection on the hundred years of Chinese cinema.
Table of Contents
Preface: Like lightning piercing the heart, like shadows following closely
Film Stars on the "Island"
From Film Star Li Dandan to Aviator Li Xiaqing
The Fiery Film and the Fiery Novel
"Zhou Yan's Divorce" in "Myriad Phenomena's" "Parting Declaration"
A "Fortuitous Turn of Events" in an Old Film Magazine Auction
The Passage of Time: The Dian Tong Era
Wang Zimei Creating Portraits of "Lianhua" Stars
Ding Cong's Early Film Comics
She Was Ten Years Younger Than Chinese Cinema
The 1930s: An "Age of Film Magazines"
Shi Hui and Lan Ma in My Memory
"Face of the Eastern Bohemian" — Feng Zhe
The "Twenty-Two Great Stars" of the 1960s
"Scandal Spreads" — Ruan Lingyu
Open-Air Films Under the Moonlight
A Tapestry of Glittering Flowers
1976–1978: Film Diary Fever
A Full Record of a Year of Love
Voices That Have Faded Away
My Vote for Huang Zongying
New China Film Magazine — ""
A Small Town's Spring Dream Fades Without a Trace
My "Hamlet" in My Heart — Sun Daolin
"Romantic-Elegant Faction" Writers Film Creation
Gone with the Wind — Li Xianglan
Singing and Acting Through Turbulent Times
Changsheng's Precious Early Film Documents — "The Grand View of Chinese Film"
"Brilliant Stars · A Large Group of Artists' Autumn Tour to Wuxi"
Tracing "The Thirteenth Number"
The First Issue of an Old Film Magazine
A Legendary Film Star — Chen Yunchang?
A Hidden trove of Film Industry History in a "Magazine"
Afterword: Missing the Old Times When "We Sat Beside the Tall Wheat Fields"